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Entangled in Fear : Everyday Terror in Poland, 1944-1947 /

"This is a story about postwar Polish society and its emotions. This is a story of heroes: soldiers, deserters, orphans, and beggars. Now available in English for the first time, Entangled in Fear reveals the broken society where bandits, hunger, bombs, Russia, and countless other threats had a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Zaremba, Marcin (Autor)
Otros Autores: Latynski, Maya (Traductor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Polaco
Publicado: Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2022]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Introduction : Before there was fear
  • In the labyrinth of fear
  • Fear in the interwar culture : the Bolsheviks and "Jewish communism"
  • The trauma of a World War : psychosocial effects of the Second World War
  • In the beginning was chaos
  • "Out of the frying pan and into the fire" : the dreaded Red Army
  • The demobilized
  • Looting fever
  • Outlaws : "The Dishonored Soldiers' Peasant War
  • It was more than just travel nerves
  • The politics of fear
  • The phantoms of transience
  • The three horsemen of the Apocalypse : hunger, high prices, and infectious diseases
  • Ethnic phobias and violence
  • Conclusion : "The boogeyman."